Review of VPNArea, One of the Most Complete VPNs on the Market

VPNArea is a popular VPN service provider created in 2012. Its headquarters are located in Bulgaria and it’s known for its high level of service, additional options at very low prices and 100% no logging policy. Without a doubt, VPNArea is a service to keep in mind and it’s worth keeping an eye on its progress in the future.

Features

Encryption protocols: VPNArea uses the main encryption protocols, such as OpenVPN, Chameleon and PPTP. By default, VPNArea uses the AES-256 bit protocol.

The best things about VPNArea

6 simultaneous connections: Currently, it’s one of the companies that offers the most simultaneous connections on the market.

Dedicated IP: For only $20 USD per month more, VPNArea gives you the possibility of having your own unique IP address (not shared with other users). This is a huge advantage, because it’s a lot more difficult to detect a unique VPN connection than one that’s shared by many users at the same time.

Ad Blocking: This is a very useful tool if you’re tired of having to close thousands of ads while browsing.

The worst things about VPNArea

Difficult to configure: VPNArea is a very complete VPN, but it’s not easy to configure it to work under optimal conditions. In addition, if you want to use certain servers or are in a country like China, it’s very likely that you will need the help of their technical support service, otherwise it won’t work.

Short money-back guarantee period: If you want to try the VPN before making a final decision, you only have 7 days (many VPNs give you 30), as after that, you won’t be able to get your money back if you’re not convinced by its services.

Customer service: Despite offering customer service 24 hours a day 7 days a week and the fact that they answer your questions very quickly and efficiently, the live chat option isn’t available 24 hours a day, which means that sometimes answers take a while.

Disorganized website: Some pages on their website don’t provide many details, and it tends to be difficult to find information on the VPN’s details.

Use recommendations

Connecting in China

To connect in China, it’s possible that you will have to use obfuscated servers on certain occasions (read below), although in general, you will be able to connect by simply doing the following:

1) In the VPNArea software, click on the button “Show Dashboard” –> “Servers/Speed”.
2) Select the server that you want to connect to.
3) Change UDP to TCP in “Protocol”.
4) Change the value of “Port” to “53”.

Chinese servers

Chinese servers often have trouble connecting and you have to make a modification to connect:

1) In the VPNArea software, click on the button “Show Dashboard” –> “Servers/Speed”.
2) Select the China-Shanghai or China-Qingado server.
3) Make sure that “Protocol” is set to UDP.
4) Change the value of “Port” to “8292”.

Obfuscated servers

While in general, I don’t recommend using obfuscated servers, as they make connecting much slower, in certain countries, Internet service providers block the VPN via DPI (Deep Packet Inspection), and it’s necessary to “hide” VPN traffic.

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